22 Sydney and Melbourne businesses join to create magic in lockdown
By Imogen Bailey | 21 July 2021
These are the locally-made sweatshirts giving hope to Australian manufacturers and creatives.
Over the course of 12 months and multiple lockdowns (including one complete standstill), 22 businesses have banded together to create a series of sweatshirts produced entirely in Australia.
Using a wholly end-to-end local supply-chain, the garments are manufactured using 100% Australian cotton and on-shore suppliers and services.
The sweatshirts, produced for She Lion, feature the words “Actually, I Can” and “Support Local”.
She Lion founder Kate Dillon said the journey from sample to store has been a powerful example of local resilience.
When it comes to transgender and non-binary representation, Hollywood has a lot of work to do.
Days after Mj Rodriguez made history as the first transgender actor nominated for an Emmy in a lead role, GLAAD released their annual Studio Responsibility Index and found that there were exactly zero transgender or non-binary characters in major Hollywood films.
That’s right, zero.
For the fourth year in a row.
By GLAAD’s own estimates, there were zero transgender characters out of almost 400 films released in January 2017. That’s pitiful, especially given the progressive steps forward on TV where there were 29 regular and recurring transgender characters just in the past year.
This week s Emmy nominations include a first.
Mj Rodriguez became the first openly transgender performer to be nominated in a lead acting category, for her role in the FX drama series
Pose. Her nomination is being hailed as a milestone for trans inclusion.
Meanwhile, some who identify as nonbinary are questioning why entertainment awards are divided by gender in the first place.
For nonbinary actors, the gendered actor/actress categories for awards including the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys ignore their identity. When pitted against each other in the context of an awards show, they only mean male or female, or man or woman, says actor Asia Kate Dillon, who is nonbinary. When presented with those options, I am neither of those things.
How one Melbourne entrepreneur enlisted 22 SMEs to create a clothing line with a 100% local supply chain
She Lion founder and chief Kate Dillon. Source: supplied.
In the midst of Melbourne’s months-long lockdown of 2020, entrepreneur Kate Dillon was just one of many small business owners who feared for her livelihood.
But, as she saw the community rallying around local stores, she had the spark of an idea that would ultimately lead to a whole new range of products, in a whole new sector, and with a whole new mission.
Some 12 months later she’s launched a range of sweaters designed, produced and created locally, with 22 small businesses forming an end-to-end, all-Australian supply chain.
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